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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
The Flames haven't traded away player with term for futures yet so it could still be a retool technically speaking. They were forced to trade all the players they've traded or else they would have lost them for nothing.
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But usually isn't that how it starts. You get rid of the UFA's first, and start with others after.
They did try to trade Markstrom with 2.5 years left. A guy who was having a really good year. From the sounds of it, it was a futures trade as well.
Also the players with term, either are guys who likely will never have a trade market(Huberdeau), or guys you want to keep like Weegar and Coleman.
Kadri is a difficult one.
They also have a bunch of NTC, so those conversations probably happened at the exit meetings.
He also mentioned he wants a strong culture, and trading away good players who want to win like a Coleman and Weegar would hurt that. A losing team, but guys who go out and play hard and still try to do it the right way and try to win even though they know we may suck lol.